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We do...However it only holds two. I guess the design engineers didn't think more people could die at any given time...

^5 Good_Queen_Bess. People who have posted saying sleepers are negligent and irresponsible are just trying to be martyrs of some sort. If my eyeball's are to be on each one of my patients the entire shift, then every nurse out there has failed. Why not ban reading, chatting to a co-worker, going to smoke (NO POSTER has touched that one yet...MAYUN...Going to the other side of the hospital to smoke and me having to find you is waaaaayyy worse than me having to nudge you to wake you up!) and eating too? What I do on my break is my business. Break = Time away from work. I guess I might add that I would not sleep at the nurses station while NOT on break. At least I try not to while occasionally nodding.

^5. Why is this a issue? Because those who aren't doing something bad..."sleeping" for the topic of this discussion, want to feel as though they are better than those who sleep and/or just want to have something to gripe about. If I asked you to watch my patients while I took a break and went to the other side of the hospital to smoke...Would you be pissed at that? Are you pissed when I take a break? (Grrrr....Why is this even an issue?)

Private hospitals tend to have more $loot$, more "new" stuff and more snobbery. Public hospitals are overlooked and under-funded, but have spunk and intellect because of the deficit AND dedicated people who are there. That's about it in a nutshell.

I'm feeling faint reading this..... I'd have to go on pysch meds to visit roach infested homes. Or be heavily sedated. Either way - I'd be fired because my charting would look like childs play. Hang in there Hoolie....!

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Congrat's....Now my advise? Run fast...To another career. Seriously.

^5...(again).... Fergus51!

This is interesting. Is it more of a "I don't do it so you shouldn't either?" issue? What's the difference if someone goes to the other side of the building to smoke a cigarette for a half hour? They are just as much outta sight-outta mind as someone in a close by breakroom grabbing a nap. The only difference, is I'd go get the sleeping person. I ain't running across the hospital to get the smoker employee. I work at a facility where nurses do sleep while they are on their break. I thought it wasn't a big deal, since breaks are essentially your break from working, and to be taken away from the work area. BUT, I can see that this could be a problem if people don't return on time from their breaks or if it causes problems with patient care. It makes a big difference if there is teamwork all the way around, and no one is taking advantage of the situation.

I think tax write-offs are STATE specific. Here in Cali, Textbooks aren't a write-off (to my understanding. Correct me if I'm wrong!)

I have a question to those on this thread (Thanks Liann). A family member was told her 12 year old son has it, based on the fact that he has had scant amounts of bleeding from his rectum for about a year with no etiologies. Diagnostics are WNL. I told them to get a second opinion, but not being familiar with IBS, could this be true?

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What happens if you "flunk" the RN Boards too many times?

Sounds like a paramedic dumped her sometime in her life, and she's never quite gotten over it Are you scared to write her attitude up?

Yes...Isolation precautions is VERY important information to know!